Time to toss your old RedHat 5.0 disks and try something new; I'm running Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, sometimes Kubuntu, and sometimes Slax, among others, on three and sometimes four systems ranging from a 200MHz to a 1.4GHz, and I don't even remember what x86.config looks like anymore. I haven't manually edited configs for anything but a few legacy apps I like the familiarity of since I was running Slackware on a 486. Nearly everything has a GUI config now.gigag04 wrote:Yeah - it's entertaining. But Linux is not very plausible in a widespread real world desktop application. The learning curve is steep, and most users are not savvy enough to edit an x86.config file to get some small feature changed.
As user friendly as it can be, I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu's way of getting around the need for a root password to anybody who wants to be able to fine tune much - PCLinuxOS seems to work really well, though, and keeps my desktop user-friendly enough for SWMBO to use it from time to time.